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...st was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into the silent continents of Death and Eternity, a brave man?s judgments about his own sorry work in the field of Time are not apt to be too le...

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...tivities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadf... ...alogy, for he left it almost before the years of memory; and in his mature days regarded it, if with a little more recognition and intelligence, yet w... ...,—as by Nature’s kind law it is arranged. Mrs. Sterling, even in her later days, had still traces of the old beauty: then and always she was a woman o... ...t one of the few adven- tures occurred which marked, in my mind, my boyish days with importance. When loitering beyond the castle, on the way to schoo... ...nappointed inciden- tal and continual ones, whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence, and whose lessons, no- ticed or unnoticed... ... apartment; which was adorned by pictures of Architecture, and by Heads of Saints, better than many at the Royal Academy Exhibition, and which one pai... ...Wherefore, as a memorial of them, I bought there several Legends of Female Saints and Martyrs, and of other Ladies quite the reverse, and held up as w... ... bits of colored marble and gilding, and Gog-and-Magog colossal statues of saints (looking prodigiously small), and mosaics from the worst pictures in...

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...re in the British Linen Company?s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the days of our explorations, I am not without hope. There should be left in our native city some seed of the elect; some long legged, hot-headed youth must repeat to-day our dreams and wanderings of so many years ago; he will re...

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...appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the days of our explorations, I am not without hope. There should be l... ... of money, and some of the chief of these merchants bowing me from their doors. Two days before, and even so late as yestermorning, I was like a begga... ...llen from yourself, I will give it for an long as it shall please God to spare your days.” “You will observe,” he said next, “that I have made no empl... ...on me the while as though he had found a brother. “Ah!” says he, “these are changed days since your cousin and I heard the balls whistle in our lugs.”... ... see. She is the most beautiful creature! She hangs round the close-head these last days, always with some wretched-like gillies, and yet seems quite ... ...re you’re taking me!” I cried. “Just to the Bass, mannie,” said he: “Whaur the auld saints were afore ye, and I misdoubt if ye have come so fairly by ... ...s, was a place full of history, both human and divine. I thought it strange so many saints and martyrs should have gone by there so recently, and left...

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...itectural display. Speaking even of London, we ought in all reason to say--the Nation of London, and not the City of London; but of Rome in her palmy days, nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic. A million and a half of souls--that population, apart from any other distinctions, is per se for London a justifying ground for such a classification; … fortior...

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...the Nation of London, and not the City of London; but of Rome in her palmy days, nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic. A million ... ...t subject to the ebbs and flows which attend the commercial empires of our days, (for all are in part commercial.) The depression, the reverses, of Ro... ...e who survive, no arrears of misery are allowed by this scourge of ancient days;* the total penalty is paid down at once. As respected the hand of ma... ...As respected the hand of man, Rome slept for ages in absolute *“Of ancient days.”—For it is remarkable, and it serves to mark an indubitable progress ... ... in a military ha- rangue to the following effect: “Know that within a few days the king will come up with us, bringing with him sixty thou- sand legi... ... no such wide chasm between this pagan supersti- tion and the adoration of saints in the Romish church, as at first sight appears. The fault is purely...

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...f the words of God is not to be tolerated. Secondly, you ask if the departed saints intercede for us. Regarding the first question, you can give the p... ...th these block heads; and just as St. Paul brags against his madly rav ing saints, I will brag over these asses of mine! They are doctors? Me too. T... ... so hard in translating Job, sometimes barely translating 3 lines after four days. Now that it has been translated into German and com pleted, all ca... ...e to the German tongue. Ah, translating is not every one’s skill as some mad saints think. A Martin Luther’s “Open Letter on T ranslating” 12 right, ... ...” (if God grants me grace). On the other question as to whether the departed saints intercede for us. For the present I am only going to give a brief ... ...ling). First, you know that under the papacy it is not only ta ught that the saints in heaven intercede for us even though we cannot know this as th... ...? What is not the Word of God does not make Christendom. We read that in the days of Elijah the prophet there was apparently no word from God and not ...

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...elier marble limbs it stole, Regenerate in art’s sunrise clear and wide As saints who, having kept faith’s raiment whole, Change it above for garments... ... like a marble block, is given to all, A blank, inchoate mass of years and days, Whence one with ardent chisel swift essays Some shape of strength or ...

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...as sold the merit of Christ, together with the superfluous mer its of all saints and of the entire Church, etc. All these things [and every single o... ...of the Pope, but through the preaching of God’s Word. Of the Invocation of Saints. The invocation of saints is also one of the abuses of Anti christ ... ...sandfold better [and surer, so that we are not in need of calling upon the saints]. And although the angels in heaven pray for us (as Christ Himself a... ...angels in heaven pray for us (as Christ Himself also does), as also do the saints on earth, and per haps also in heaven, yet it does not follow thenc... ... it does not follow thence that we should invoke and adore the angels and saints, and fast, hold festivals, celebrate Mass in their honor, make offer... ...t one could grant indulgence for a hundred years and another for a hundred days. But he reserved to himself alone the power to remit the entire satisf...

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...aning over, prying into his doings, had the brunt thereof.” “Thanks to the saints that no further harm was done,” ejaculated the lady shuddering, whil... ...d in the court-yard. Servants were not dismissed for carelessness in those days, but soundly flogged, a punish- ment considered suitable to the “black... ...and the nation.” “There is happily no murder in the case. Praise be to the saints,” said Countess Alice, “your little maid—” “Aye, that’s what they sa... ..., and Countess Alice still held her up, while, after the practice of those days, he bled the already almost unconscious child, till she fainted and wa... ...shaken. “Well a day!” said Lady Whitburn, softened for a moment, “what the Saints will must be, I trow; but it is hard, and I 21 Charlotte M. Young s... ...she was very little more enlightened in her ideas of what would please the Saints, or what they could do for her, than were the old heathen of some un... ... crying, so she said nothing till her whirlicote, as the carriage of those days was called, was actually being prepared, and then she went to the cham... ...he order; but no child ventured to make much resistance to elders in those days, and espe- cially not to the Countess, so Grisell, a very poor little ... ... Scripture history, generally clothed in rhyme, and versified lives of the Saints, were read aloud at meal-times in the refectory, and Grisell became ...

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...he Prince him- self, gave a cry of horror. Two hundred years later, in the days of Louis XV ., people of taste would have laughed at this witticism. O... ...never uncovered himself when a Name was pronounced, and for him the carven saints in the churches became works of art. He understood the mechanism of ... ...us care that the great magnifico, Don Juan Belvidero, took of himself, the days of decrepitude came upon him, and with those days the constant importu... ...t idea. The vast church was lighted up by thousands of candles, offered by saints and sinners alike eager to win the favor of this new candidate for c... ...mps and silver candlesticks, of banners and tassels, of the shrines of the saints and votive offerings, paled before the gorgeous brightness of the re... ...ver-haired old men clad in fine linen albs, were grouped about him, as the saints who con- fessed Christ on earth are set by painters, each in his pla...

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...the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: 15 To shine in the rmament of heaven, and to give light up... ...the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. 15 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and th... ...the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. 18 Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and ... ...el was a shepherd, and Cain a husbandman. 3 And it came to pass after many days, that Cain o ered, of the fruits of the earth, gifts to the Lord. 4 Ab... ...se up to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of saints. In his right hand a ery law. 3 He hath loved the people, all the s... ...ord’s, and upon them he hath set the world. 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall pr... ...f Paralipomenon 523 let thy priests, O Lord God, put on salvation, and thy saints rejoice in good things. 42 O Lord God, turn not away the face of thy... ...t Tobias rebuked them, saying: Speak not so: 18 For we are the children of saints, and look for that life which God will give to those that never chan... ...night is over, we will be in our own wedlock. 5 For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined together like heathens that know not God....

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...ve long since outgrown. Therefore I beg such lazy paunches or presumptuous saints to be persuaded and believe for God’s sake that they are verily , ve... ...ook at or think of them! And what else are such supercilious, presumptuous saints, who are unwilling to read and study the Catechism daily, doing than... ...han esteeming them- selves much more learned than God Himself with all His saints, angels [patriarchs], prophets, apostles, and all Chris- tians For i... ...he same thing, and does not take up anything new or different, and all the saints know nothing better or different to learn, and cannot finish learnin... ...the beginning to the end of the world, and all prophets, together with all saints, have been occupied with learning it and have ever remained pupils, ... ...d summarily and com- manded in the passage Ps. 50, 15: Call upon Me in the days of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me. For all th... ...simple as to what God requires in this commandment, note that we keep holy days not for the sake of intelligent and learned Christians (for they have ... ...e of intelligent and learned Christians (for they have no need of it [holy days]), but first of all for bodily causes and necessities, which nature te... ...whoever 33 The Large Catechism observes this commandment shall have happy days, fortune, and prosperity; and on the other hand, the punishment, that ...

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...e dim idea, and seeing nothing but overwhelming greatness and dimness. The days of illumination are gone! But do you know I fancy—I fancy”—and he grew... ...le blue-hilled, pastoral, sceptical Italian landscapes. Then there are the days of fierce, fastidious longing—solemn church feasts of the intellect—wh... ...frenzy—time to snatch his phrase and scribble his immortal stanza; but for days together, while the slow labour of the brush went on, while the foul v... ...e Raphael, bad an artist may still be an artist. As I said last night, the days of illumination are gone; visions are rare; we have to look long to se... ...aics, majolica dishes, and little worm-eaten diptychs covered with angular saints on gilded back- 17 Henry James grounds, our hostess enjoyed the dig... ...th its trumpery Peruginos! If you can’t dash off a new picture every three days, and let her hand it round among her guests, she tells them in plain E... ...ecently listen to. He may be a little cracked, but he’s one of the blessed saints.” “Eh!” cried the man, “the blessed saints were all a little cracked...

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...ebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue. When landlords turn the drunken bee Out of ... ...rams, I shall but drink the more! Till seraphs swing their snowy hats, And saints to windows run, T o see the little tippler Leaning against the sun! ... ...e that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spi... ...ough for me. A smile suffused Jehovah’s face; The cherubim withdrew; Grave saints stole out to look at me, And showed their dimples, too. I left the p... ...oo large, Or only I too small? LX A SHADY friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mi... ...o touch, Y et persevered toward, surer for the distance; How high Unto the saints’ slow diligence The sky! Ungained, it may be, by a life’s low ventur... ...or lie. LXXIV UNTO my books so good to turn Far ends of tired days; It half endears the abstinence, And pain is missed in praise. As flav... ...e a day at summer’s full Entirely for me; I thought that such were for the saints, Where revelations be. The sun, as common, went abroad, The flowers,... ... a shining place! Me! Hear! My foreign ear The sounds of welcome near! The saints shall meet Our bashful feet. My holiday shall be That they remember ...

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...he day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the rmament of the heave... ...of the eld; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and ... ... cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee;... ...his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth: 4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten 8 Genesis Seth were eight hundred years... ...hem; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thou- sands of saints: from his right hand went a ery law for them. 3 Yea, he loved the p... ...s right hand went a ery law for them. 3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall rece... ...ORD’s, and he hath set the world upon them. 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall n... ...ength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness. 42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine ... ...ter 5 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayet...

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...t- ening heavens, the changes of which were interpreted in those credulous days according to the ideas or the habits of indi- viduals. Suddenly she tu... ...gins, Jeanne de Saint-Savin, a young lady who, by a not uncommon chance in days when people were killed off like flies, had suddenly become the repres... ...te and Comtesse d’Herouville, a discussion arose on a topic which in those days of ignorance was thought amusing: namely, the legitimacy of children c... ...tered scenes of her past existence. She refused even to think of the happy days when her heart was free to love. Like as the melo- dies of their nativ... ...ng of the things of life. She thought with an almost mocking regret of the days when all her happiness was to work beside her mother in the tapestried... ...on, and to found one hundred masses in honor of the Virgin, if God and the saints will restore to me the affection of my son, the Duc de Nivron, here ... ... feelings of womanhood. She loved God, she loved Jesus, the Virgin and the saints; she loved the Church and its pomps; she was Catholic after the mann... ...square behind, which the Italian masters give almost invari- ably to their saints and their madonnas. This elegant corse- let, made of sky-blue velvet...

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...nd yet it was a cheerful place in my boyhood. But, you see, in my father’s days (and the same was true of all my endless line of grandfathers, as I ha... ... will tell you that the air of Monte Beni is not so favorable to length of days as it used to be. But that is not the secret of the quick extinction o... ...shaded room. But, at Monte Beni, with provident caution against the wintry days, when there is little sunshine, and the rainy ones, when there is none... ...an exceedingly delightful 22 The Marble Faun V ol 2 fellow in his younger days. But the contadini sometimes added, shaking their heads and sighing, t... ... prints, representing the sufferings of the Saviour, and the martyrdoms of saints, hung on the wall; and behind the crucifix there was a good copy of ... ...etained a genuine life; they filled the transepts with a radiant throng of saints and angels, and threw around the high altar a faint reflection—as mu... ...e,” said Donatello. “I tremble at those aw- 76 The Marble Faun V ol 2 ful saints; and, most of all, at the figure above them. He glows with Divine wr... ...his angels look as if they had never taken a flight out of heaven; and his saints seem to have been born saints, and always to have lived so. Young ma... ...s, Pietas, Noli-me-tangeres, or the Sacrifice of Abraham, or martyrdoms of saints, origi- nally painted as altar-pieces, or for the shrines of chapels...

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...hthood means!’ ‘ Ay, and they will lay hands on us and wed us one of these days,’ returned Jean, ‘unless we vow ourselves as nuns, and I have no mind ... ...tilts and tour- neys, but live among murderous caitiffs and reivers all my days,’ sobbed Jean. ‘I would not be such a fule body as to give in for a ha... ...gdom for her tocher that these folks have well-nigh lost among them.’ ‘The saints be praised if they have.’ ‘I cannot forget, my liege, how your own s... ... and how it might have been done save for the slaying of your noble father—Saints rest him!—which broke mine uncle’s heart, so that he died on his way... ...Large folding screens, worked with tapestry, representing the lives of the saints, shut off the part used as an oratory and that which served as a bed... ...t of Auvergne, who had come on a mission to the Scotch Court in the golden days of the reign of James I., and being an old companion- in-arms of Sir P... ... cam’ ye to guess that same, which was, so far as I know, only decided two days syne?’ ‘Our pursuivant was to bear a letter to the King, and I garred ... ...ation,’ said Countess Alice. ‘We have both been blessed too, thanks to the saints,’ re- turned Lilias. ‘That is indeed sooth,’ replied the other lady.... ... prom- ised her on the morrow a sight of some of the metrical lives of the saints, especially of St. Katharine and of St. Cecilia. It must be owned th...

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...h magic power, which enabled her to predict what would be lucky or unlucky days for her husband. His disre- gard of them was thought to have twice cos... ... erected, and by the neglect of the jealous precautions required in former days of confusion and misrule. Thus it was with the village of Lynwood, whe... ...rince’s side.” “You must go with him, then, sister, and see how I begin my days of chivalry—that is, if he will but believe me fit to bear shield and ... ...ph? A horn!” “The Lynwood note! My husband’s note! O thanks, thanks to the Saints!” cried the Lady, clasping her hands, whilst Eustace, vaulting into ... ...nursing or the over-nursing, whichever it might be, that thinned in former days the families of nobles and gentleman, might as well, in the opinion of... ...imed, as the face of his late companion appeared. “Can it be you? Have the saints sent 52 The Lances of Lynwood you to my succour?” “It is I, myself,... ...looking as gaunt and spectral as the phantoms they dreaded. He blessed the saints when Eustace came forth safe and sound, and smiled and shook his hea... ...at the same moment old Ralph, with uplifted hands, cried, “Blessing on the Saints that my young Lord is safe, and that mine eyes have seen you once ag... ...her last wishes, those prayers in answer to which, as I fully believe, the Saints have sent you at the very moment of greatest need.” “Her last wishe...

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...in knavery, in whom there was more of the material that makes thieves than saints, and who knew just how far it was possible to go without catching th... ...s a farce in which there was plenty of eating and drinking, since for five days they so heartily attacked every kind of provision that a party of Germ... ...!” “By the queen of Antlers!” replied the Burgundian, “by my faith, by the saints, by God! and by the devil, I know only stories of the Court of Burgu... ...oman. Certain other jokers reproached them with imitating the lives of the saints, in their own fashion, and said that all they admired in Mary of Egy... ...25 Droll Stories – Vol. 2 boatmen. From whence the raillery: To honour the saints after the fashion of Poissy. There is still the crucifix of Poissy, ... ...onille, then, had an ambition to have her name included in the Calendar of Saints, which was in no way prejudicial to our order. She lived in prayer a... ...ant Adoremus, of which no man could have invented a note. She remained for days with her eyes fixed like the star, fast- ing, and putting no more nour... ...her cooked or raw, and ate only a crust of bread a day; but on great feast days she would add thereto a morsel of salt fish, without any sauce. On thi... ... herself the meditation over this patchwork. She was occupied dur- ing ten days, praying, and sewing the said breeches, lining them with silk, and mak...

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...lly putting down this authorized condition of deadly feud. This was in the days of Maximilian’s youth. He is a prince who seems to have been almost as... ...precious jewel of mine.” “And let her polish his flagons to the end of her days,” laughed Hugh grimly, but manifestly somewhat influenced by the notio... ...xclaimed her aunt; “from thee who art sick for fear of a lanzknecht!” “The saints will be with me, and you will pray for me,” said Christina, still tr... ...ink so ill of Hugh as thou dost, mother. And, for the rest, Heaven and the saints and her own discretion must be her guard till she shall return to us... ...uredly could mean no good by any burgher maiden. The good aunt blessed the saints that her Stina was likely only to be lovely in affec- tionate home e... ...The good God bless thee, my child,” said Gottfried, who seldom invoked the saints; “bless thee, and bring thee back in His own good time. Thou hast be... ...sion, was making his rule felt, and it was fast becoming apparent that the days of the independent baron- ies were numbered, and that the only choice ... ...er fol- lowed the great Konrads and Freidrichs of Swabia in their imperial days, their descendants had taken care to forget the weakness, and believed... ...infuse some Christian hope, some godly fear? Could it be for this that the saints had led her hither? 40 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest CHAPTER III CHA...

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...discolored eaves, Out of trunks with hingeless covers Lifting tales of saints and lovers, T ravelers, goblins, thieves, Suns that shine by night, ... ...ring not your happy fate, Sat as England’s Laureate? Vainly, in these iron days, Strives the poet in your praise, Minstrel, by whose singing side Beau... ...yed a reed, and ran After nymphs in a dark forest, In the merry, credulous days,— Lived, and led a fairy band Over the indulgent land! Ah, for in this... ...s Obstreperous in her praise They neither love nor know, A goddess of gone days, Departed long ago, Abandoning the invaded shrines and fanes Of her ol... ...all your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done; But the music of your talk Never shall the chemistry Of the ... ...e sun Upon a hill, after the sun has set. V V V V V Once more into my arid days like dew, Like wind from an oasis, or the sound Of cold sweet water bu...